LIFE IN HEAVEN – PART TWENTY-THREE
Saturday – September 29, 2018, Tishrei 20, 5779
TIME FRAME FIVE
Ephesians 4:8 to 1 Thessalonians 4:16 – 17
JESUS BLOOD ON THE MERCY SEAT TO THE CATCHING AWAY
Greetings precious ones of God. I hope you are finding this study of life in Heaven stimulating and faith building and enjoy thinking about it as different time-frames and certainly not static. An interesting thing about God is that He is all at once static and in constant flux. The nature and character of God do not change however the various expressions of that character and nature are inexhaustible. Now, let’s recap from last week as we transitioned from one time-frame to another. So, now who do we find in Heaven? Heaven now has the Father, the Son, (the Holy Spirit is in the earth) there are multitudes of angels of all types and ranks, the resurrected saints of the Old Covenant that were housed in Paradise until the Messiah shed His Blood and preached the gospel in Paradise. The (Old Testament Saints) went to Heaven with the Resurrected Savior restored as God and were sprinkled in Heaven with the Blood of Jesus just as Moses had sprinkled the people in the earth with the blood of animals.
This is of course not a static situation with a steady stream of arrivals in Heaven (not Paradise) from the earth. Unfortunately, there is also a steady stream of arrivals to hell. I am not aware of a Biblical description of day to day life in Heaven in any time-frame. I understand there have been a multitude of persons who have reported going to Heaven under various circumstances and have returned to earth to give their testimonies. There are many books written on this and a common theme is that life is wonderful but really could we expect less. Listen we are talking about God, infinite in every aspect, who went by anyone’s measure to extraordinary lengths to have sons and daughters. As I have pointed out many times to you, the readers, I have tried to exercise great care in crafting this teaching led of Holy Spirit to reflect what we do know about God, Heaven, and earth.
I think there is one thing we can all agree on which is that none of us are currently perfect and will likely need some tweaking in Heaven. Even as you are reading this there are people arriving in Heaven that believed on Jesus just moments ago and those who have been maturing over many years. Please do not be shocked and run with your hair on fire but life in Heaven will be much like our life on the earth with notable exceptions. Our time in Heaven will include leisure time punctuated with times of productivity and creativity just like our Father. All earthly societies are organized into seven broad categories called pillars, mountains, or trees in Scripture. We will spend time at the Throne of the Father, we will see Jesus, we will see the heroes of old, and we will fellowship with our own families. In addition to this we will have assignments in Heaven in one or more of the pillars of Heavenly society. Let us delve into this, some is speculative but knowing that God created earth to be just like Heaven, His perfect will was for us to have an environment as perfect as His. He never intended for us to be step children living under the bridge.
SEVEN PILLARS
Proverbs 9:1 (HCSB)
1 Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.
The seven pillars established by God, by Wisdom are as follows; 1. Religion, 2. Government, 3. Media and Information, 4. Education and Science, 5. Business and Finance, 6. family, and 7. Arts and entertainment. Seven is the number of spiritual completions. You and I are all in at least three of these pillars today and that will be so forever. We are all in the family pillar (like it or not), the religion pillar, and at least one other. These pillars are the organizational tools of society, the foundational precepts of civil or organized society. These pillars may also be referred to as mountains or trees but it is all the same idea. The other pillar or mountain is likely the one in which God gave you a passion, special talents, and giftings. For the Christian our citizenship is in Heaven and we are God’s Ambassadors who are also sons in the earth on assignment. The question we must ask ourselves is have these years been spent in our God chosen assignment or in what we chose to do? Have we been in our place in the Kingdom of God or perhaps out of our place? In any event God knows our place; He knows what He has equipped each of us to do with the talents and Anointing given from Him. In God, in the Kingdom of God, it is never too late as long as you are taking breath on the earth to get in your place. Repent and ask God to show you now and then obey.
Until our next publication, confess the following passage and walk before Whom we have to do with great rejoicing and thanksgiving. This physical body is our humiliation but soon it will be no more for the glory of God and our eternal benefit.
John 14:1-4 (KJV)
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
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